Understanding EDI Agents

EDI agents copy EDI transaction data between PeopleSoft business documents and the PeopleSoft database, using the maps that you defined in Mapping EDI Transactions. Two types of EDI agents are available:

• Inbound EDI agents, which process incoming transactions by copying data from PeopleSoft business documents into the database.

• Outbound EDI agents, which create PeopleSoft business documents from transaction data in the EDI staging tables.

If your system processes EDI transactions, you will usually want to have two EDI agents running on a regular schedule: one inbound agent and one outbound agent. You can also start other EDI agent instances for special purposes, such as processing the corrected version of a PeopleSoft business document that failed the first time.